Robert Waring Bugie
Military
USAAF Photo
Object Number - UPL 51514 - 1st Lt Robert Waring Bugie, 412BS, 95BG
Assigned to 412BS, 95BG, 8AF USAAF. Flew 27 x combat missions. ETD
Awards: DFC, AM, Unit Citation, WWII Victory, EAME.
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Units served with
People
Aircraft
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Flak Holes
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Chicken Ship : The Pickwickian : King Salvo
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron 483rd Bomb Group 815th Bomb Squadron
![A crsashed B-17F Flying Fortress (serial number 42-3273) of the 95th Bomb Group. Official caption on image: "1746. MRU. 12-23-43. Repps, Norfolk Co. B-17F, 42-3273. A." Handwritten caption on reverse: '22/12/43 A.' On reverse: Damaged USAAF Photographic Station 505 [Stamp].](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-408540.jpg.webp?itok=zXvQ19Q1)
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Impatient Virgin
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
- Aircraft Type: B-17 Flying Fortress
- Nicknames: Hard Time : A-Good-Bett : Blues in the Reich
- Unit: 95th Bomb Group 412th Bomb Squadron
Missions
- Date: 19 March 1944
- Date: 18 March 1944
- Date: 9 March 1944
![A bomber crew of the 381st Bomb Group return to base after a mission in their B-17 Flying Fortress (serial number 42-31761) nicknamed "Rotherhithe's Revenge". Image stamped on reverse: 'Sunday Pictorial for Censor.' [stamp], 'Passed for publication 10 Mar 1944.' [stamp] and '310673.' [Censor no.] Printed caption on reverse: 'BACK FROM BERLIN. Scenes this week at a Bomber station of the U.S. Air Force , somewhere in England. The crew of the Flying Fortress "Rotherhithe's Revenge", a British subscribed ship](https://assets.americanairmuseum.com/s3fs-public/styles/teaser_thumb_x2/public/freeman/media-380068.jpg.webp?itok=3h76SN3N)
- Date: 8 March 1944
- Date: 3 March 1944
Places
Events
| Event | Location | Date | Description |
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Born |
Fort Thomas, Kentucky | 20 February 1920 | Son of Harry A Bugie. |
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Enlisted |
Patterson Field, Fairfield, OH | 28 July 1942 | Patterson Field, Fairfield, Ohio |
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Other 95th Bomb Group Combat Tour |
Horham | 16 December 1943 - 19 April 1944 | Completed a 25 mission combat tour |
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Other Discharged USAAF |
4 November 1945 | Honourable discharge. | |
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Died |
Fort Thomas, KY | 19 August 2007 | |
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Buried |
Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati, OH | 21 August 2007 | Spring Grove Cemetery Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio |
Revisions
https://www.fold3.com/record/35922654/robert-w-bugie-social-security-de…
https://www.fold3.com/record/84225146/robert-w-bugie-wwii-army-enlistme…
https://www.fold3.com/record/623312179/robert-bugie-1920-veterans-affai…
https://95thbg.mmsw.eu/person/844
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21227416/robert-bugie
Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia